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languor and fatigue. We frequently prefer to all 

 thefe a ruftic mountain, a rugged rock, fome wild 

 folitude, which might prefent to us relations newer, 

 and ftill more direct. 



How often, on coming out of the King's mag- 

 nificent Cabinet of Natural Hiftory, do we (top 

 mechanically to look at a gardener digging a hole 

 in the field with his fpade, or at a carpenter hew- 

 ing a piece of timber with his hatchet ? It looks as 

 if we expected to fee fome new harmony ftart out 

 of the bofom of the Earth, or burft from the fide 

 of a lump of oak. We fet no value on thofe which 

 we have juft been enjoying, unlefs they lead us 

 forward to others, which as yet we do not know. 

 But were the complete Hiftory given us of the 

 ilars of the Firmament, and of the invifible Planets 

 which encircle them, we mould perceive in them 

 a multitude of ineffable plans of intelligence and 

 goodnefs, after which the heart would continue 

 fondly to figh : it's lafl and only end is the Di- 

 vinity himfelf. 



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